A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

expressive Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 3.5 3 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences107 2 1 0 0 0
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of expressive in Corpus

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Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
, tae believe no fit fir, nir expressive nir 'proper' eneuch, for seri on page 36

1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
sorts o expressive writin,
expressive writin
Expressive writin
3 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Scottish side o her wis less expressive. She had growed up in Scotlan
€™s faces is that bonny, that expressive. An the things at fowk maks w
t tae her that, tae hae sicna expressive face, he hadna ayweys been bl
3 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Bittie aboot oor Doric dialect, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Inverurie, blog
angs, stories, an their rich, expressive tongue.
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
a roon the country bairns hae expressive Scots in there heids jist wai (2021) twitter link

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
kkers. Thur language is rich, expressive, hilarious, humane, profound,
1 matches

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